The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...

The ringed planet reaches opposition, Mars slips past the open cluster M35, and the original Cepheid variable shines in the ...

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Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore ...

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The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...

You may know that Saturn isn’t the only planet with rings. Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus have less obvious rings, too. Some ...

To reach that surprisingly conclusion, scientists studied the positions of 21 asteroid impact craters during the Ordovician period – the second of six periods in the ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...